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[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

A historic day in China’s space program!

China’s Long March-10B has successfully completed its maiden flight—and recovered its first stage via a sea-based net. This marks the country’s first-ever controlled rocket recovery. A major leap toward reusable launch capabilities. 🚀🌊🇨🇳

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.

It includes:

64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
Geolocation data
Livemap with minute to minute updates
Victim list

It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF

Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison.

We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This young hero deserves unlimited reposts saving a life

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Joe Kent: The $3.8 billion to Israel is just the start. We park military hardware there to defend them. We pay Egypt to not attack them. Without US support, Israel couldn't go on offense

We have to really look at the, the relationship with Israel and also the way that Israel behaves in Gaza, in Lebanon, basically to all their different neighbors"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

180 years ago today, May 13, 1846, the United States declared war on Mexico.

Less than 2 years later, Mexico had lost over HALF its territory. What is now California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. All of it was Mexico until 1848.

President James K. Polk justified the war by claiming Mexico had "shed American blood on American soil."

A freshman Congressman from Illinois didn't buy it. Abraham Lincoln stood up in the House and demanded Polk identify the exact "spot" where it happened. Polk couldn't. Lincoln was mocked as "Spotty Lincoln," and lost his seat.

Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes in protest. He was thrown in jail and wrote an essay about it called "Civil Disobedience." That essay later inspired Gandhi. Then Martin Luther King Jr.

Ulysses S. Grant fought in the war as a young lieutenant. Decades later, in his memoirs, he wrote:

"I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico. I thought so at the time, when I was a youngster, only I had not moral courage enough to resign."

The war that doubled America. The war that made Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Jackson into household names. The war almost no one talks about anymore.

It started on this day.

[Money Coach Joe @FiSavvy]

The Millionaire Next Door is the most important book most people never read.

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Normal people who quietly built wealth on normal incomes.

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be.

When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire.

Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it.

Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack.

In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray.

Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain.

The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine.

The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over.

The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war.

The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north.

Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms.

Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa.

He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended.

Most Americans have never heard his name.

[Econlib @Econlib]

It’s not The Wealth of Nations, it’s an inquiry. Not a slogan, but a question: what is wealth, and what causes it? Smith wasn’t declaring, he was investigating. Discover more in David Hebert's full article. https://t.co/VeCuoe5S8S

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

On this day in 1995: first internet IPO.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

@neeratanden There is only ONE candidate for #CA22 who REJECTS the corrupting influence of the Israel lobby.

Support @Villegas_CA22!

[Handre @Handre]

In 2008, Iceland did something unthinkable: they let their banks die. While America scrambled to save "too big to fail" institutions, this tiny Nordic island told their three largest banks to pound volcanic sand.

The immediate aftermath was brutal. The krona collapsed 50% overnight. ATMs ran dry. And the entire country—population 320,000—found itself effectively bankrupt on the international stage.

But here's the twist no economist saw coming: Iceland recovered faster than any other crisis-hit nation. By 2012, their economy was growing again while Europe wallowed in endless bailout cycles. They jailed 26 bankers, restructured household debt, and rebuilt from actual ground up.

Meanwhile, we're still dealing with zombie banks propped up by endless Fed liquidity injections. Sometimes the "radical" solution is just letting capitalism work.

[Langfocus Paul 🪬 @langfocus]

History of Mexican Spanish

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

The Mexican-American War stands as one of the most consequential yet overlooked conflicts in American history. Sparked by disputes over Texas annexation and territorial boundaries, President James K. Polk deliberately provoked Mexico into firing the first shots after sending U.S. troops into contested territory between the Nueces River and Rio Grande. When Mexican forces attacked Captain Seth Thornton's patrol on April 25, 1846, killing 11 Americans, Polk declared that Mexico had "shed American blood upon American soil"—though the land's ownership remained disputed.

The war became a proving ground for future Civil War commanders. Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and George McClellan all gained crucial combat experience in Mexico. American forces proved superior through better artillery, logistics, and leadership. General Zachary Taylor's victories at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma opened northern Mexico, while General Winfield Scott's audacious amphibious landing at Veracruz and subsequent capture of Mexico City demonstrated American military prowess. The U.S. employed innovative tactics like "flying artillery" (mobile horse-drawn cannons) that devastated Mexican defensive positions.

Despite military success, the war sparked fierce domestic opposition. Congressman Abraham Lincoln challenged Polk with his "Spot Resolutions," demanding proof that American blood was shed on American soil. Writers like Henry David Thoreau went to jail rather than pay taxes supporting the war, penning "Civil Disobedience" in protest. Many Northerners saw the conflict as a Southern conspiracy to expand slavery westward. Desertion plagued both armies—the U.S. lost 8.3% to desertion, while some American soldiers, particularly Irish Catholic immigrants facing discrimination, switched sides to form the San Patricio Battalion fighting for Mexico.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) forced Mexico to cede nearly half its territory—present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming—for just $15 million. Mexico lost over 900,000 square miles, while the U.S. gained the territories that would fuel the slavery crisis leading to Civil War. Grant later wrote that the conflict was "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation," adding prophetically: "The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."

The Mexican-American War fundamentally reshaped North America's political geography and accelerated the United States toward civil war. Mexico lost 55% of its territory and suffered lasting national trauma, political instability, and economic devastation that would plague the nation for decades. The U.S. gained the Southwest and California—soon enriched by the 1848 Gold Rush—but the question of whether slavery would expand into these territories shattered the fragile political compromise between North and South. The Wilmot Proviso's failure to ban slavery in the new territories intensified sectional hatred. Veterans' combat experience would soon turn against fellow Americans as former comrades like Grant and Lee commanded opposing armies in the Civil War. The war established dangerous precedents for American military intervention abroad, presidential war-making powers without full Congressional oversight, and manifest destiny ideology that justified territorial expansion regardless of moral considerations. For Mexico, the humiliation fueled anti-American sentiment lasting generations, while displaced Mexican and Native American populations faced systematic loss of land rights and citizenship protections despite treaty promises.

#drthehistories

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Hi Ambassador Mike Huckabee,

You wrote, "Zionism is the belief that Israel has a right to exist in safety and security."

The problem with your definition of Zionism is that is supposed Zionism was and is an abstract idea, rather than a movement with leaders, followers, institutions, policies and militias that established the State of Israel in 1948.

That Zionist movement set out to build a Jewish state with a Jewish majority working at Jewish-only cooperatives living in Jewish-only colonies owned by Jewish-only land authorities operating Jewish-only schools in a country of 95% Palestinian Arabs. What could possibly go wrong? let's dive in.

Zionism was the ideology of the movement that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish.

That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish. https://t.co/5et8PsWobq

That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed, and even expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. Jews only! https://t.co/oXfyJsWFtC

That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. https://t.co/A6l95xmlpG

That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity (https://t.co/s2RBvscLWY p.416).

That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959. https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE

That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from the West Bank & 40,000 Palestinians from Gaza from June 1967 - December 1967, when it occupied those territories in 1967. https://t.co/rm4KhVazUY

That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them. https://t.co/16FarJ7vAw

This is why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on Jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians.

It's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization ( @ICAHD in 2010, @UNESCWA in 2017, @YeshDin in 2020, @AdalahCenter in 2020, @btselem in 2021, @hrw in 2021, @fidh_en in 2021, @alhaq_org in 2022, @Addameer in 2022, @AlMezanCenter in 2022, @cacalqudsuni in 2022, @AdvocacyJlac in 2022, @miftahpal in 2022, @ICJ_org in 2022, @DAWNmenaorg in 2022, @amnesty in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship. Israel chose apartheid and Jewish supremacy over democracy.

Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to @amnesty , @hrw , @btselem , @MSF , IAGS, @alhaq_org , @UNHumanRights , @UN_HRC , @pchrgaza , @AlMezanCenter , @WarOnWant , @PHRIsrael , @fidh_en , PHROC, @LemkinInstitute , @theCCR , @ECCHRBerlin , @unitedforrights @JURDIasso , @TheElders , @Oxfam ), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide.

Mike, I offer courses on the history of Zionism, anti-Zionism, Palestine, the Palestinians & Israel here. Educate yourself: https://t.co/SMV6pMrxEi

[Sasquatch Unfiltered @sasquatchvlogtv]

Historical Figures as Regular People

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Why America feels colder than Europe.

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[bende @0bendeozledim]

Some tree grafting techniques

[Sarvesh Shrivastava @bloggersarvesh]

Claude + Local SEO is going to quietly create a bunch of local business “mini millionaires” this year.

This feels exactly like when people figured out Facebook ads in 2016-2017.

Average businesses were beating better businesses… just because they understood distribution first.

We’re in that same window again.

But this time, your alpha isn’t ad spend.

It’s how fast you can publish helpful local pages + optimize your Google Business Profile before your competitors even wake up.

The stack to win local search didn’t look like this 12 months ago, but now it’s here:

→ Claude (or ChatGPT): $20-30/month
→ Google Business Profile: Free
→ A basic website (WordPress/Shopify/Webflow): low cost
→ Canva/CapCut for simple visuals: Free
→ Google Search Console + Analytics: Free

Total cost to start: Under $100/month. And people used to pay agencies $1k–$3k/month just to move slowly.

Here’s how to use it:

Step 1: Find your local keywords with Claude

You don’t need to guess anymore.

Give Claude your services + your city/areas. Ask it to list:

- A “service + location” keywords
- “near me” intent keywords
- emergency keywords
- comparison keywords (best, affordable, etc.)

Step 2: Build service area pages (fast)

Tell Claude your exact offer, prices, process, and service areas.

Ask it to draft pages for each area you serve (one page per area).

Then you add the real stuff: photos, reviews, FAQs, and a call button.

Step 3: Turn your Google Business Profile into a lead machine

Ask Claude to write:

- GBP description
- services list (with short blurbs)
- 20 FAQs + answers
- weekly Google Post ideas (offers, tips, before/after)

Step 4: Create “proof” content that ranks

Claude can turn one job into 10 pieces of content:

- a short case study page (“AC repair in Bandra: fixed in 45 mins”)
- a Google Post
- a simple Reel script
- a FAQ update

Step 5: Get reviews + replies done in minutes

Ask Claude to write 3 review request texts and a review reply template.

Then do the only part AI can’t: actually ask customers.

This isn’t magic.

It’s the same local SEO fundamentals… but now you can execute 10x faster.

And the businesses that publish first will collect the calls.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

‘This is not a market. This is a war. It is a war between the paper shorts in the West, who are desperately trying to suppress the price and maintain the illusion of control, and the physical buyers in the East, who are willing to pay any price to secure every last ounce of real, tangible metal. And the East is clearly winning’

#metalsandminers